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Mastering emotions feelings, power, and slavery in the United States /

"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipati...

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Main Author: Dwyer, Erin Austin,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Physical Description: 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: America in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:
Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Freed persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslavers -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Slaveholders -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

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